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Hace 4 días · James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general who served during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".
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2 de may. de 2024 · James Longstreet (born January 8, 1821, Edgefield district, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 2, 1904, Gainesville, Georgia) was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (1842), he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union ...
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1 de may. de 2024 · James Longstreet nació el 8 de enero de 1821 en el suroeste de Carolina del Sur. Hijo de James y Mary Ann Longstreet, pasó sus primeros años en la plantación de la familia en el noreste de Georgia. Durante este tiempo, su padre lo apodó Peter debido a su carácter sólido y rocoso.
24 de abr. de 2024 · In a remarkable political about-face, Confederate general James Longstreet embraced Congress’s Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and thereby became a pariah among unreconstructed white Southerners. Longstreet’s conversion launched him on a decades-long career as an influential Republican operative and iconoclastic critic of his own ...
11 de abr. de 2024 · The story of Samuel Johnston’s reconnaissance in the early morning hours of July 2 and subsequent Confederate movement under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet has been widely covered in standard Gettysburg interpretations. Most notable are Harry Pfanz’s Gettysburg: The Second Day and Edwin Coddington’s The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command.
Hace 6 días · The death of Jackson caused Lee to make the long-needed reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia from two large corps into three, under James Longstreet, Richard S. Ewell, and A.P. Hill. The new assignments for the latter two generals caused some command difficulties in the upcoming Gettysburg campaign, which began in June.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Varon’s book reminds us how we came to be where we are, and how much work remains to be done: There are more than 4,400 American names etched into those plinths in Montgomery, all killed by their fellow Americans after Longstreet gives up trying to win the peace of the American Civil War. Become a Member.
